Re: Is relational theory irrelevant?
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:59:14 -0500
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"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message
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> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
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> > Paraphrasing the standard vocabularies:
> >
> > Information is knowledge.
>
> And that tells me what?
It tells you what you asked for. If you want to take a deconstructionist attitude that language lacks meaning, you can do so without my participation.
> > An activity is a course of events.
>
> But how is an activity anything more than information that includes time
> values?
An activity does something. Information is something but does nothing. If you refuse to comprehend or acknowledge such an obvious and fundamental difference, I see no point in continuing the discussion. Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 22:59:14 CET